Harold Bilbrough

Harold Ernest Bilbrough^[1] (1867 – 15 November 1950) was the fourth Anglican Bishop of Dover in the modern era.^[2]

Life and career

Bilbrough was educated at Winchester and New College, Oxford, he began his ecclesiastical career with a curacy at St Mary’s, South Shields^[3] and was successively Vicar of St John’s, Darlington,^[4] Rural Dean of Jarrow and then Sub-Dean of Liverpool Cathedral before his elevation to the episcopate as Bishop of Dover in 1916.^[5] He was nominated Bishop of Newcastle on 14 September and installed on 5 October 1927; he retired on 1 October 1941.

References

1. NPG details
2. ”Who was Who 1897-1990” London, A & C Black, 1991 ISBN 0-7136-3457-X
3. "Clergy List" London, John Phillips, 1900
4. The Times, Thursday, 25 Mar 1897; pg. 8; Issue 35160; col B Ecclesiastical Intelligence
5. Malden Richard (ed) (1920). Crockford's Clerical Directory for 1920 (51st edn). London: The Field Press. p. 427.